Hybrid cloud solution: Hitachi Vantara and Microsoft [Video]

Hitachi Vantara LLC is building on a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. announced last year to create an AI-ready full stack platform leveraging Azure for delivering a hybrid cloud solution.

The agreement between the two companies launched Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Azure Stack HCI, delivering enhanced cloud management across multiple environments encompassing data centers and the edge.

“The partnership between Hitachi and Microsoft has been very sound for the last decade, but more recently we’ve advanced that partnership significantly with a global strategic agreement,” said Rollen Roberson (pictured), vice president of hyperscalers and cloud at Hitachi Vantara, the infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. “With our UCP platform integrated with Azure Stack, it’s now allowing us to accelerate more quickly into the market in partnership with Microsoft. What once started as a reference architecture has now evolved into a full compute, full stack platform, AI-ready for our customers.”

Roberson spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay at …